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Cannonpointer » Yesterday, 8:06 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 8:06 pm

"When judges exhibit consistent abusive behaviors which over-reach to control foreign policy against the democratic will of the electorate, it is incumbent upon the Legislature todecisively limit the power of the judiciary until such time as rebellious judges can be effectively censured." - what I just said.

----------------------------  A budget bill by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a “stunning” provision that would limit federal courts’ ability to hold government officials and other litigants in contempt for disobeying their orders, according to Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.The provision should be rejected as “a terrible idea,” wrote Chemerinsky, an ABA Journal contributor, at Just Security via Executive Functions.